Episodes

Friday Oct 31, 2025
Lauren Samuelsson on food, gender, Anthony Bourdain, tradwives
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Lauren Samuelsson on food, gender, Anthony Bourdain, tradwives
You can read about her work here:
https://www.laurensamuelsson.com/

Friday Oct 31, 2025
Nina Bandelj: money, emotions, parenting, economic sociology, immigration
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Nina Bandelj on money, emotions, parenting, economic sociology, and immigration
You can read about her work here:

Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Jamie Shenk: Colombia, research, armed conflict, democracy, environment
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Jamie Shenk on Colombia, research ethics, armed conflict, democracy, and environment
You can read about her work here:
https://www.jamieleeshenk.com/
https://routescoffee.co.uk/

Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Laini Burton on masks, gender, disability, the art world, and design
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Laini Burton on masks, gender, disability, the art world, and design
You can read about her work here:
https://experts.griffith.edu.au/8743-laini-burton

Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Lindsay Thomas on novel size, security, BookTok, humanities, and pandemics
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Lindsay Thomas on the size of novels, slop work, national security, BookTok, speed reading, the humanities, and pandemics
You can read about her work here:
https://lindsaythomas.net/

Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Miriyam Aouragh on generation Z, Morocco, Palestine, the Dutch right
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Miriyam Aouragh on generation Z politics, Morocco, Palestine, and the Dutch right
You can read about her work here:
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/aouragh-miriyam

Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Shelley Cobb on Friends, women filmmakers, Bridget Jones, feminism
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Shelley Cobb on Friends, women filmmakers, Bridget Jones, celebrity, feminism and post-feminism
You can read about her work here:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x5xj9/professor-shelley-cobb

Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tina Sikka: on technoscience, intersectionality, climate, food, sex, health
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tina Sikka on technoscience, Marxism, intersectionality, climate, food, sex, and health
You can read abut her work here:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/people/profile/tinasikka.html

Monday Oct 27, 2025
Elizabeth Smyth on the wet tropics, writing, farms, and canopy cranes
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Elizabeth Smyth on the wet tropics, writing, farms, and canopy cranes
You can read about her work here:
https://portfolio.jcu.edu.au/Researchers/elizabeth.smyth

Friday Oct 24, 2025
Jonathan Ong on journals, disinformation labor, policy, and refugees
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Jonathan Corpus Ong on the International Journal of Cultural Studies, disinformation labor, policy, refugees
You can read about his work here:
https://www.umass.edu/social-sciences/about/directory/jonathan-corpus-ong
https://open.spotify.com/show/0w7E2dq8JnoVDJaRyupM6i

